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HOT BLAST STOVE.

No. 469,826. Patented Mar. 1, 1892.

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HOT-BLAST STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,826, dated March 1, 1892. Application filed July 17, 1890. Serial No. 359,029. (No model.)

of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this of my improved hot-blast stove.

specification, in which Figure 1 is a vertical central sectional view Fig. 2 is a View showing the same in horizontal section on the line II II of Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is a section taken in the plane of line a: of Fig. 2. Fig. 3 is a view one half of which shows in plan View the top of the stove while the other half shows it in transverse section on the line III III of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section taken in the plane of line 2 z,Fig. 1. Fig. at is an enlarged vertical section of one side of the stove, taken through one of the bottom doors on the line IV IV of Fig. 5. Fig. 5 is a horizontal crosssection on the line V V of Fig. 4..

Like symbols of reference indicate like parts in each.

My stove resembles in some respects the stove shownin PatcntNo. 398,8eO, datedMarch 5, 1889, and granted on an application filed by Horace Massicks and Walter Crooke, but is in many respects an improvement thereon.

As shown in the drawings, the stove has a central combustion-chamber, a central vertical flue which forms the first pass for the gas by which the stove is heated, and vertical fines arranged outside the central fine, through which the gas passes in its course through the stove.

2 is the combustion-chamber.

3 is the transverse flue through which gas is admitted to the combustion-chamber.

4 is a fine through which air is admitted to burn with the gas, and 5'is the vertical fine forming the first pass for the burning gas. This fine is preferably circular in cross-sec.- tion and extends nearly to the crown or arch 6.

7 7 are vertical fines communicating at the top with the space 8 under the crown and extending downwardly exterior to the walls of the flue 5. The conjoined fines 7form an annular space within the stove, which is separated into individual fines by radial walls 9, extending to the bottom of the stove. Outside the fiues 7 is an annular series of fines 10, which communicate at the base with the fines 7 through ports 11, and which may be divided into two annular divisions by an upright circular wall 12, which extends to within a short distance of the bottom of the fines. The transverse divisions of the fines 10 are formed by radial walls 13. Some of the walls Sextend entirelyto the bottom of the stove, thus dividing the fines 7 into parts laterally distinct from each other, which so guide the gas in its fiow as.to prevent it from passlng through some of the parts ofthe stove in preference to others. At their upper ends the fines 10 are connected with the stack-flue 14 by transverse lines 15, which extend through the crown of the stove and are shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

16 is the chimney-valve, consisting of adisk supported by a suitable lever 17 and adapted to fit against the under side of aseat18,bnilt in the masonry of the stack. I

19 is the cold-blast pipe, which enters the stack, and at its end is upwardly directed toward the under side of the valve 16, so that the pressure of the blast emerging from the pipe tends to force said valve to its seat.

20 is a hot-blast outlet-fine, which leads 8o from the combustion-chamber at the base of the fine 5 and is provided with a suitable valve 21.

The manner of building the walls of the stove is novel and is illustrated in Fig. 2.

The walls of the fine 5 are built of vertical brick courses 22 and 23, and at the lowerpart it may have an interior lining 24. The use of the two'vertical courses of bricks 22 and23 is desirable, in order that each may cover the vertical joints of the other, and in building .the store I prefer to secure greater stability by setting the bricks 22 on the inside and on the outside in alternate horizontal courses. This is illustrated in Fig. 3, in whichI show a horizontal section of the stove, taken on two distinct section-planes, each half, of the View being taken on a horizontal plane intersecting the next horizontal course of bricks above or below the plane of the other. As shown in I00 this view and in part of Fig. 2, the outer circular wall of the flue 7 is constituted of vertical courses of wide and narrower bricks b and c which in alternatehorizontal courses are set on 

